In 2014, one of the buzziest planned pilots was How I Met Your Dad, a reported spinoff of the soon-ending How I Met Your Mother. According to Deadline, Rodriguez was cast to play Juliet, the BFF to Greta Gerwig's protagonist and "a sexy, flamboyant force of nature who runs the most successful fashion blog in the country."
Only three weeks after news of her casting broke in early March, however, Rodriguez left the pilot for undisclosed reasons. CBS wound up passing on the pilot, and attempts to shop it to other networks failed.